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"Make" is too strong a word but I don't know how else to say it. I see kids that seem to be three or so and still pushed in strollers.
I was at a Border's once and heard loud crying. The father was telling his son that they would NOT be taking the elevator and that he had to walk and the son wanted to be picked up.
It was one flight of stairs.
I have witnessed this more than once and I applaud parents who break the habit of carrying or pushing kids who should be exercising their legs!
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Originally Posted by i love living foods
It's not just about the strollers, though. Where I live I see parents walking their kids to school and not dropping them off in SUVs. There is a big fitness thing around here. People are health-conscious and jog/walk/bike all the time.
I think maybe there are two elements to this: spoiling the kids and/or keeping them dependent. After all, when you walk around, you are becoming a separate being. At age 2 children are ambulatory. And they begin to assert themselves as individuals. Perhaps to discourage this, some parents want to keep them babies and under their control.
I think you are doing an awful lot of assuming. as well as making a mountain out of a molehill.
Maybe the kid who was carried down the stairs had already walked a lot that day and was tired. Maybe he is slow on stairs, as most toddlers are. Maybe the people dropping their kids off in cars are on their way to work or errands. Who are you to say the kids "should" be walking?
Or their parents are dropping them off while on their way to work or somewhere else. And what difference does what the parents are driving matter? If they were being dropped off in convertibles what would that indicate?
LOL--I live amid a sea of SUVs so that is why I said that instead of simply a car. And you are right--there are definitely people who must go to work and therefore don't have the luxury of walking their kids to school. I live in an affluent area with lots of stay-at-home moms very similar to the 1950s and '60s. I went to elementary school in the 1970s and was a latchkey kid. I also walked myself to school.
I think you are doing an awful lot of assuming. as well as making a mountain out of a molehill.
Maybe the kid who was carried down the stairs had already walked a lot that day and was tired. Maybe he is slow on stairs, as most toddlers are. Maybe the people dropping their kids off in cars are on their way to work or errands. Who are you to say the kids "should" be walking?
In terms of the crying boy, are you suggesting his father abused him by gently and firmly telling him he had to walk upstairs?
You know when I waited tables I knew some girls from Bulgaria, and they never understood why we would use strollers, or pick up toddlers. In their culture, once you could walk, you did. Sorry for that pointless tidbit of knowledge .
LOL--I live amid a sea of SUVs so that is why I said that instead of simply a car. And you are right--there are definitely people who must go to work and therefore don't have the luxury of walking their kids to school. I live in an affluent area with lots of stay-at-home moms very similar to the 1950s and '60s. I went to elementary school in the 1970s and was a latchkey kid. I also walked myself to school.
Yes well I'll just go with what Kibbiekat said. Lots of assuming going on here and as long as you feel good about the choices you are making in your family and your life, no need to judge others for their choices. None of us know the whole picture behind another person's choices - and yes, some may just be lazy and spoiled. Meh...that usually comes around to bite them at some point. Their problem, not mine.
I was at a Border's once and heard loud crying. The father was telling his son that they would NOT be taking the elevator and that he had to walk and the son wanted to be picked up.
Borders closed two years ago. Interesting you can't think of a more recent example if this is such a pervasive problem to you.
You know when I waited tables I knew some girls from Bulgaria, and they never understood why we would use strollers, or pick up toddlers. In their culture, once you could walk, you did. Sorry for that pointless tidbit of knowledge .
It is NOT pointless. That is precisely my point! I feel that many adults don't walk and pass on that habit to their kids.
YES, some parents have to work and cannot take their kids to school on foot. But could parents coordinate with other parents to have one parent walk with a bunch of kids of working parents? And in less high-crime areas, why not just let your kids walk to school, especially if it's only four or five blocks away?
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